The company last month opened new offices – Prime Minister John Key officiating – and it now has 600m2 of space for at least 60 staff, says managing director Brian Eccles.
Real-time access to information will lift farmers’ ability to decide their responses to climate, environment and market pressures, Eccles says. Accurate, timely information is the key.
“Our vision is to provide farmers with software tools that assist day-to-day management, including physical and financial indicators, while supporting the ‘big-picture’ plan.
“Armed with good information, farmers are better equipped to deal with variable seasonal and economic conditions.”
CRS Software in 2009 released a cloud-based financial management system especially for farmers. The benefits of being able to access the same information from any PC has surprised everyone, Eccles says. “It’s a success well beyond expectations.”
The company’s next round of innovations will include: enabling data to just arrive – coded and ready to analyse; apps for mobile phones; connections directly to cloud software becoming available to farm accountants; and providing systems needed by large farming businesses.
And despite the intermittent broadband plaguing some farmers, CRS products will deliver the goods.
The new building will house a rapidly growing team of developers and sales staff, Eccles says.
“I am immensely proud of how our team has come together in the past few years to help us become New Zealand’s leading rural financial software company.”
